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Motherhood: To be or not to be?

Isabella Panichi February 27, 2024
I sat in class, trying to understand how I could make some sort of career for myself, but still be able to pick up my future children from school. As I attended a Catholic school during my elementary years, motherhood was synonymous with femininity and what it meant to be a woman. It wasn't until seventh grade that I realized this wasn’t necessarily true. 
Gender Justice: The pandemic revealed deep-rooted gender inequality persists

Gender Justice: The pandemic revealed deep-rooted gender inequality persists

Meredith Varner January 29, 2021
The disproportionate number of women currently out of work could potentially worsen the negative bias against professional women and working mothers.
In the third installment of the Boston Playwright Theater’s “BPT Talks” series, BPT playwright Cayenne Douglass took her audience behind the scenes of her thesis play “Beasts.” COURTESY OF BOSTON PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER

Student playwright captures complex familial bonds in thesis project

Molly Farrar November 12, 2020
BU's Boston Playwrights’ Theatre is hosting weekly “BPT Talks,” during which a third-year Master of Fine Arts playwright at BPT discusses their latest work.
British feminist and historian Sarah Knott spoke about “Mother is a Verb,” her 2019 memoir on female experiences of motherhood since the 17th century, at the Massachusetts Historical Society Wednesday. CAMERON MORSBERGER/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Feminist re-examines modern-day motherhood with historical perspective

Cameron Morsberger February 23, 2020
Sarah Knott, British feminist historian, shared her 2019 memoir titled “Mother is a Verb,” at the Massachusetts Historical Society on Wednesday evening. The work includes excerpts of letters and factual accounts of female experiences from the 17th century onward to establish a concrete history of the once voiceless women.
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